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Cause to Rejoice With $240,000 Cost Award

By Howard Knopf, Esq.

A professor at Stanford who took on the highly litigious James Joyce estate has been awarded $240,000 in costs. She had some very high powered legal help.

It is reported that Stephen Joyce, an heir "told one performer, who had simply memorized a portion of Finnegans Wake for an onstage presentation, that he had probably "already infringed" on the estate's copyright".

Here's the story.

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Full post as published by Excess Copyright on September 29, 2009 (boomark / email).